Posted: Sat 02 Jan 2010, 22:41 Post subject:
Year 2010 - The Translation Year of Puppy LinuxSubject description: Anyone has a universal translation HOWTO? Or shall we place it here?

Happy New Year!

The regularly coming request at puppylinux.org is how to translate Puppy Linux. While I have an idea how to do this, I have not translated Puppy yet, so it would be good if someone could write an updated how-to.

Or shall we use this thread to work on that how-to?

Step 1 - Is it correct to say that the first step in translating Puppy is launching "Chooselocale" from the menu? Are the various locales already available from the ISO? Is the situation the same in 4.2.1 and in 4.3.1? How about in 4.1.2?

If the desired locale is not available, download the devx sfs (corresponding to your Puppy version), put it in /mnt/home and reboot to use it. (Before remastering, boot via CD or USB with pfix=ram and remove the devx sfs from its current location then hide it in a subdirectory of your drive. Get more ideas about remastering here.)

If your language uses different fonts, add or change the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF and regenerate the fonts dir and list by these commands in console:

Code:

mkfontdir
mkfontscale

You may have to run Menu-Setup-Mouse/Keyboard wizard to fine-tune your keyboard settings

Step 2 - Modify the scripts in /usr/share/desktop-directories and /usr/share/applications. What is the technique so that the correct language is displayed with the chosen locale?

More steps (please fill in).

Thanks a lot!_________________Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).Last edited by raffy on Tue 05 Jan 2010, 16:10; edited 1 time in total

Really interesting! Can't really say I understand what it does, but it's nice to see bigger interest in the translation of stuff _________________What seems hard is actually easy, while what looks like impossible is in fact hard.

“Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.” –Percy Cerutty

Really interesting! Can't really say I understand what it does, but it's nice to see bigger interest in the translation of stuff

Quote:

Hard things take time to do.

Yes, it has taken time.

The big difference is:
Translations are based on internationalization now.
Internationalization is further developed and maintained by BarryK.
The work of translation is not for 1 puppy but for every future puppy that is made from woof2.
See it in action with recent racy or wary where you may use momanager (see menu > tools > momanager)

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